‎Physique‎

‎"LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMONE. - THE SHORT-RANGE FORCES.‎

‎Theorie der Kraft. 1.-4 Haupttheil. (1. Welche in den Haarröhren und bei ähnlichen Erscheinungen wirkt. - 2. Die Wirkung der Haaröhren-Kraft auf eine neue Art Betrachtet. - 3. Theorie des Anziehens und Abstossens schwimmender Körper, der Adhäsion eine...‎

‎Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, raised bands. Very slightly rubbed. In ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 33. (Entire volume offered). (12),452 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Laplace's papers: pp. 1-114, pp. 141-182, pp. 273-293, pp. 293-338 a. pp. 373-394.‎

‎First German edition of Laplace's groundbreeking papers on the ""Short-range Forces"" i.e. capillary action, cohesion of solids, chemical reactions etc., where Laplace makes a major contribution to the mathematization of the subject. The papers are his first contributions to mathematical physics, and appeared as supplements to Book X of the fourth volume of his ""Traité de mécanique céleste"".""The importence, for Laplace's theory, of the shortrange character of the molecular forces cannot be overstressed. Small terms involving the square of the distance were repeatedly ignored, and it is no coincidence that in his concluding remarks to the second supplement Laplace reiterated his belief in the idntity of the forces at work in optical refraction, capillary action, and chemical reactions. In accordance with his belief that capillarity is a consequence of intermolecular action at a distance (albeit a very small distance), he tried to determine the relativemagnitude of the attractive force between the particles composing the liquid (F1) and the force between the particles of liquid and those of the tube (F2).... experiments, performed at Laplace's request, by Gay-Lussac, Haüy, and Jean-Lois Trémary...gave the theory added plausibility, as Laplace himself was always ready to observe"" and they certainly helped it to survive the criticism of Laplace's only contemporary rival in the treatment of capillarity, Thomas Young.""(DSB XV, Suppl. I, pp. 358 ff.).‎

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‎"LAGRANGE, JOSEPH LOUIS.‎

‎Verbesserung zweier Theorien in Newton's Principien etc., über die Fortpflanzung des Schalls und die Bewegung des Wellen. Frei übersetzt von Gilbert.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1813. Without wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Neue Folge, Bd. 44., Siebentes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 40. Pp. 229-340 a. 1 engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Lagrange's paper: pp. 240-269.‎

‎First edition in German, translated from the French version from the Berliner-Academy (1786).‎

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‎"LANCZOS, KORNEL.‎

‎Über eine stationäre Kosmologie im Sinne der Einsteinschen Gravitationtheorie. - [THE EXACT SOLUTION TO THE EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION]‎

‎(Berlin, Julius Springer, 1924). 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", 21-22 band, 1924. Find and clean. Pp. 73-110. [Offered volume: Pp. 382, V, 416.]‎

‎First printing of Lanczos exceelingly important paper in which he discovered an exact solution of the Einstein field equation which represents a cylindrically symmetric rigidly rotating configuration of dust particles. This was later rediscovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum and is known today as the van Stockum dust. It is one of the simplest known exact solutions in general relativity and regarded as an important example, in part because it exhibits closed timelike curves. Lanczos served as assistant to Albert Einstein during the period of 1928-29.‎

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‎"LA COUR, PAUL.‎

‎La Roue Phonique. - [THE PHONIC WHEEL]‎

‎Copenhague, K. Schønberg, 1878. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the original printed, illustrated wrappers. A very fine copy of this delicate publication. 72 pp. Many text-illustrations throughout.‎

‎"LADENBURG, R.‎

‎Die quantentheoretische Deutung der Zahl der Dispersionselektronen. (And same author:) Das Verhältnis der beiden D-Linien des Natriumdampfes. - [THE LADENBURG EQUATION]‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1921. Contemp. hcloth. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Unter Redaktion von Karl Scheel."", 4. Bd., pp. 451-468 and pp. 469-471. The whole volume offered. IV,476 pp.‎

‎"LAGRANGE, JOSEPH LOUIS.‎

‎Sur La Solution des Problemes Indéterminés du Second Degré. - [A FUNDAMENTAL PAPER IN THE THEORY OF NUMBERS]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", tome XXIII, pp. 165-310.‎

‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH‎

‎Essai D'Hygrométrie ou sur la Mesure de L'Humidité. (And:) Suite de L'Essai D'Hygrométrie. 2 vols. - [INVENTION OF THE HYGROMETER]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1771 and Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1774) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", tome XXV, pp. 68-127 with 3 folded plate, and ""Nouveau Mémoires Année 1772"", pp. 65-102 and 2 engraved plates.‎

‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH.‎

‎Sur la Densité de L'Air.‎

‎(Berlin, Chretien Frederic Voss, 1774. 4to. Uncut, without wrappers extracted from ""Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", Année 1772., pp. 103-140 and 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH.‎

‎Sur les Porte-Lumieres appliques a la Lampe. (And same author:) Observations sur l'Encre & le Papier.‎

‎(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1772). 4to. Without wrappers, extracted from ""Nouveau Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles-Lettres"", Année 1770, pp. 51-57 and pp. 58-67.‎

‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH. - APPLIED PHOTOMETRICS.‎

‎Sur la Vitesse du Son. (+) Memoire sur la Partie Photometrique de L'Art du Peintre. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1770). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", Année 1768, tome XXIV, pp. 70-79 a. pp. 80-108 a. Clean and fine.‎

‎"LANCZOS, KORNEL.‎

‎Über die Rotverschiebung in der de Sitterschen Welt.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library stamp to front free end paper and titel page. A heavy bump to lower part of boards. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", bd. 17. Fine and clean. Pp. 168-89. [Entire volume: IV, 424 pp.].‎

‎"LANDAU, L.‎

‎Diamagnetismus der Metalle. - [LANDAU DIAMAGNETISM]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 64, 1930. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 629-637. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 862 pp.].‎

‎"LANDAU, L. (+) R PEIERLS.‎

‎Quantenelektrodynamik im Konfigurationsraum. - [THE LANDAU-PEIERLS WAVE FUNCTION]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 62, 1930. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 188-200. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp].‎

‎"LANDAU, LEV (+) RUDOLF PEIERLS.‎

‎Erweiterung des Unbestimmtheitsprinzips für die relativistische Quantentheorie.‎

‎Berlin, Springer 1931. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 69, 1931. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. pp.56-69. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 861 pp.].‎

‎"LANDRIANI, MARSILIO.‎

‎Dell' utilità dei Conduttoti Elettrici. Dissertazione.....Publicata per Ordine de Governo. - [REPEATING FRANKLIN'S ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS]‎

‎Milano, Marelli, 1784. 8vo. Bound uncut in a fine later hvellum, spine gilt and gilt lettering to titlelabel. Engraved titlepage with an engraved illustration of different kinds of lightening experiments a la Franklin. XIV,304 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate showing how to install lightening conductors on buildings. One engraved vignette and 1 fine engraved initial. Internally clean and fine, a wide-margined copy.‎

‎"LANDÉ, A.‎

‎Termstruktur und Zeemaneffekt der Multipletts. - [FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ""LANDÉ INTERVAL RULE""]‎

‎(Braunschweig, Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer, 1923) 8vo. As extracted from ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 15. (Entire volume offered). A stamp on front free end paper.. Pp.189-205. [Entire volume: IV,420 pp].‎

‎"LANDÉ, A.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Röntgenspektren.‎

‎[Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923]. 8vo. Extracted from ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel. 16. Band"". No backstrip. Pp. 391-96.‎

‎"LANGLEY, S.P. - INVENTION OF THE BOLOMETER.‎

‎Le Bolomètre. Mémoire lu devant la Societe Mét´rorologique américaine, décembre 1880.‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1881. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of title-page, and one on verso of the plates. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Cinquiéme Series - Tome XXIV. 576 pp. + 2 folded plates. Langley's paper: pp. 275-284, textillustrations.‎

‎"LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMONE. - LAPLACE'S THEORY OF CAPILLARITY.‎

‎Considerations Sur la Théorie des phénomènes capillaires. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 13 septembre 1819). (+) Application du calcul des probabilités aux opérations géodésiques de la méridienne de France. (+) Mémoire Sur l'Application du calcul...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1819. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Light wear to top of spine and a few minor scratches. ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Tome 12.. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12, pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341.‎

‎"LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMONE. - THE SHORT-RANGE FORCES.‎

‎Theorie der Kraft. 1.-4 Haupttheil. (1. Welche in den Haarröhren und bei ähnlichen Erscheinungen wirkt. - 2. Die Wirkung der Haaröhren-Kraft auf eine neue Art Betrachtet. - 3. Theorie des Anziehens und Abstossens schwimmender Körper, der Adhäsion eine...‎

‎Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, raised bands. Very slightly rubbed. In ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 33. (Entire volume offered). (12),452 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Laplace's papers: pp. 1-114, pp. 141-182, pp. 273-293, pp. 293-338 a. pp. 373-394.‎

‎"LASSEN, N. O.‎

‎Total charges of fission fragments as functions of the pressure of the stopping gas (+) The total charges of fission fragments in gaseous and solid stopping media.‎

‎København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1951. 8vo. 2 volumes both in the original wrappers. Offprints from ""Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab"", bind 26, no. 5 & bind 26, nr. 12. Both fine and clean. 28 pp." 19 pp.‎

‎"LAUE, MAX von.‎

‎Die Entropie von partiell kohärenten Strahlenbündeln. (+) Nachtrag. (2 papers).‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1907. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 23. Pp. 1-43 a. pp. 795-797. The leaves is punched in inner margins after cords. Fine and clean. A stamp on the first leaf.‎

‎"LAUE, MAX VON.‎

‎Röntgenstrahlinterferenz und Mischkristalle.‎

‎Leipzig, Brath, 1918. 8vo. In full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 56. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Traces after a label to lower part of spine. Stamp to title page. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 497-506. [Entire volume: VIII, 1152 pp.].‎

‎"LEE, T.D. (+) C. N. YANG.‎

‎Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions. - [FOUNDATIONAL THEORY OF THE UNIVERSAL FORCES OF NATURE]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1956. Lex8vo. Volume 104, October 1, No. 1, 1956 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor bumping and sunning to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 254-58. [Entire issue: Pp. (2), 272 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Yang and Lee's seminal and topic-creating paper which proved that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. ""The discovery of parity nonconservation contributed to a general change in the intellectual climate of fundamental physics, leading to a tendency to question the absolute validity of other conservation laws as well."" (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 318-9). Before 1956, the general belief was that parity conservation is never violated in nature, a firm paradigm that was not challenged until the publication of the present paper. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics ""for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"". Lee is the youngest Nobel laureate after WWII. It had earlier been suggested that parity might not be conserved but noone had been able to put forth compelling evidence. A careful review by Lee and Yang went further, showing that while parity conservation had been verified in decays by the strong or electromagnetic interactions, it was untested in the weak interaction. They proposed several possible direct experimental tests.When Lee and Yang's paper appeared in 1956, physicists were not immediately swept away by their ground breaking conclusions. The physicist Freeman Dyson wrote of his reaction to the paper: ""A copy of it was sent to me and I read it. I read it twice. I said, This is very interesting,' or words to that effect. But I had not the imagination to say, By golly, if this is true it opens up a whole new branch of physics.' And I think other physicists, with very few exceptions, at that time were as unimaginative as I."" Wolfgang Pauli wrote to Weisskopf after reading the paper: ""Now after the first shock is over, I begin to collect myself. Yes, it was very dramatic. I am shocked not so much by the fact that the Lord prefers the left hand as by the fact that He still appears to be left-right symmetric when he expresses Himself strongly."" (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 319).The presented theory paved the way for a reconsideration of physical theories and led to new, far-reaching discoveries regarding the nature of matter and the universe. The removal of the restrictions imposed by parity law brought order to the theoretical chaos that existed with regard to subatomic particles elementary particles seen in cosmic rays and particle accelerator experiments were understood to be manifestations of the strong and weak nuclear interactions. Eventually the better understanding of their characteristics has led to a more unified theory of the fundamental universal forces of nature.‎

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‎"LE CHATELIER, HENRI LOUIS. - INVENTION OF THE PLATINUM THERMOCOUPLE.‎

‎Sur la variation produite par une élèvation de température, dans la force électromotrice des couples thermo-électriques.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1886. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 102, No 14. Pp. (783-) 834. (Entire issue offered). Le Chatelier's paper: pp. 819-822.‎

‎Firs printing of an importent paper in thermometry where he demonstrates that high temperatures could be precisely measured by way of a platinum wire in conjunction with a platinum-rhodium alloy wire.""It is to Henri Louis Le Chatelier th a t we owe the successful practical use of the platinum thermocouple which for many years was in fact known by his name. Among his many activities Le Chatelier was engaged in the study of silicates and cements and needed a reliable method of measuring high temperatures. In 1886 he reported to the Académie des Sciences an investigation on the use of thermocouples for this purpose in which he had tried to verify the parabolic relationships found by Professor T a i t between the electromotive force and the temperature of the hot junction, the cold junction being at 0°C. Using various metals and alloys against platinum, which he calibrated at the known melting points of lead, zinc, aluminium, silver, gold, copper and palladium, he obtainedresults that agreed with his calculations to within 20°C (11). He also came to the conclusion that of the various combinations he had used, platinum against 10 per cent rhodium-platinum gave the most consistent results."" (Donald McDonald and Leslie B. Hunt).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1885 P.‎

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